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Monday, October 17, 2016

Ibadan hosts Etisalat U-15 School Cup playoffs

The
main bowl of the Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba and Wesley College Playing
Ground, Elekuro, both in Ibadan centre at the weekend, hosted the Etisalat Under-15 School
cup playoffs, reports ITRealms.

For Group A match which took
place at the Wesley College, Lagos beat Ogun 2-1, while host State, Oyo scaled
over Osun by a lone goal.

The Group B matches inside main
bowl of the Lekan Salami Stadium, Adamasingba, Edo was awarded maximum points
and goals after walking over the Delta team which was yet to report to camp.

In the second group B match, Ondo
was drubbed 5-2 by Ekiti in a match of unequal strength after the former was
allowed to field only seven players following the disqualification of nine members
of the 16-player team over breach of participation rules and regulations
governing the championship.

Twenty-Four
state school teams will be featuring in the other regional qualifying matches
to be hosted consecutively at the Ilorin Township Stadium, Ilorin, Kwara State,
Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu and Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna between October
18 and November 4, 2016.

It
would be recalled that the maiden edition of the competition was won by Keke
Senior High School, Ijaiye, Lagos while Government
Secondary School, Imo emerged winners of the second edition after dispatching
its counterpart, Government Model School, Bida 4-2 in the final played at the
Campos Square Mini-Stadium, Lagos.

According to the Nigeria School
Sports Federation (NSSF), the supervising body for school sports in the country
and Championship partner, eight top teams from the four centres are expected to
automatically earn qualifications to the quarter finals billed to hold in Lagos
in November.

The
national champion of the 2016 edition will receive the Champions Trophy and a
cash prize of N2 million educational award while its players will go home with
N50,000 each. The second-placed team will go home with N1 million with the
players pocketing extra N30,000 each while the third-place winner will have the
sum of N750,000.00 for its efforts with its players receiving N20,000.00 eachBanji Boye/GEEITREALMS ... everything news digitally!
Pix: Mr. Welsher, Etisalat CEO